Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-17
SPECIAL NO. d..

But time rolls around, and Athena and juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora anc
Crete,
And a dozen or more Heathen women whom
Each finds work at LEucAprA, naming {
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twangcd fol
Eurydiee
Now praises LEucADIA, Queen of our Coast
And the Tyre tells the truth when it say,
ne'er before did see
A place where the truth seems lie and {
boast.
Where else is spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
Will grow side by side without water Oh
care,
And each visitor feel as ii he were some kir
To God when he brcathcs the electrical
air?
II a man has Il hundred or two hundred
handy,
He will buy a lot there, not a day will he
wait,
For LEucADIA the lovely, the darling, the
dandy,
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State
For climate, for health, for beauty or busi
LEUcADIA we praise in Hexameters slow
Let our readers with spi its clated TO dizzi
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
OF land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside and only one
LEUCADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
can by labor be changed into garden or.
chardS.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea- only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound theil
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt of translucent berry,
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery of the
Deity so attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres &C
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list OF available
ocean-side property. The Japanese ocean
current-the "Gulf Stream of the Pacific
in its southwark journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits OF
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey for instance, is in the lati
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti
fetal heat. and do not bathe in the ocean
As for Santa Cruz, there is couplet written
by some shiyering pleasure seeker, on the
walls OF bath-house there, which couplct ac
curately expresses the situation.
"santa Cruz water is like Scotch snuff,
One dip" and you've got enough"
AT Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southwark in a direct course, while the
Coast line, defects eastwardly at a SHARP
angle, and in a few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing in any month
of the y ar a real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente
there is but little coast that is available foI
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep foI
driving and the surf consequently too heavy
while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arroyos, SO as to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
crows
From Point Vicente TO San Pedro there are
probably twenty or thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, Ballona, Long Beach, etc.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea is
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is nc
ground available for a seaside resort until
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direct
road from Los Angeles 10 San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held at
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for a
lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for residence lots mile and more
from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
will not sell at any price, and ii you annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling he
will make the interview as brief as may be
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls-
bad, and it is beautiful location, and there
will be large town there. and prices of lots
are already away up, as they ought to be.
From Carlsbad south there are lagoons. sand
dunes and broken ground until you reach
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the San
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest site
In the world for an ocean city and on this site
is "Leucadia"-the subject Ofsour sketch
lies in the lap of Paradise She is the fairest
of all the fair daughters of the sea. She is the
Venus Amphridite of Southern California,
The beach is hard and level. You can drive
along it for twelve miles. For bathing there
&c 1..f1 f,xf .f l..
would not upset baby, and there being nc
lagoons near there are in consequence no
stingrays. From the edge of the bluff over,
hanging the beach the ground slopes gently
up to the top of the first ridge. then it de.
scends gently a valley, through which the
railroad runs, then there is gradual ascent
to the top of the second ridge mile or SO
away.
The amazing thing about Leucadia, and in
which it differs from every other seaside in
its soil. The valley and hill slopes are COW
cred with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus and
other trees, and they are green with vine
yards and corn fie DIS.
Leucadia is in process of preparation for
the market. Streets and avenues have been
cleared, graded, staked and named after
Greek deities and personages. A drinking
fountain and bath house are being erected
at a white sulphur well on Hygeria avenue.
Bath houses on the beach and steps and
grades thereto have been constructed. A
railroad station, after the model of the Pan
theon, has been built, and dining-room
which is conducted by skilful cook. An
Underground stream of water has been
struck which will be raised by cyclone mills
to a reservoir on the summit of high hill,
from which pipes are now being laid through
the avenues
TWO HUNDRED LOTS WILL BE OFFER
ED AT AUCTION ON WEDNESDAY, OC-
TOBER 26, 1887, and no lots will be sold
before that date. There will be an excursion
train from Los Angeles to San Diego and re-
turn, leaving Los Angeles, Tuesday, October
25th, 1887. Holders of excursion tickets on
this train will receive at the office of the
Combination Land Company, in San Diego,
free excursion tickets to Leucadia and return
TO San Diego. There, will be music, and
teams for driving on the beach and terraces,
and fine lunch, all free; and then, after
preliminary address by Mr.. THOMAS FITCH,
on southern California and the Boom,J
the prince of auctioneors, MR.. II. II. MAT
otK, VIII offer at aution lots in THE MOST
BEAuTIFUL, FERTILE AND ACCESSIBLE
SEASIDE CITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFOR-
MA. For maps and information, apply at
the office OF H. II. MATLOCK d son, i'll
West First Street, Los Angeles, or at the San
Diego Office OF